meliorated

Definitions

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adj. made better; improved

v. Simple past tense and past participle of meliorate.

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Examples

That said, let us not forget that many ‘liberal’ thinkers — and anarchists — have argued that the human condition can be meliorated, even perfected, without claiming that ‘socialist man’ is the end in view.

That said, let us not forget that many ‘liberal’ thinkers — and anarchists — have argued that the human condition can be meliorated, even perfected, without claiming that ‘socialist man’ is the end inview.

The air in summer is reckoned unwholesome by the exhalations arising from stagnant water in the neighbourhood of the city, which stands in the midst of a fertile plain, low and marshy: yet these marshes have been considerably drained, and the air is much meliorated.

The potatoes, which had first been brought from the Cape of Good Hope, were greatly meliorated by change of soil; and, with proper cultivation, would be superior to those produced in most other countries.

A few wild fruits are sometimes procured, among which is the small purple apple mentioned by Cook, and a fruit which has the appearance of a grape, though in taste more like a green gooseberry, being excessively sour: probably were it meliorated by cultivation, it would become more palatable.

In no more time than a snap of the fingers, it seemed, Teresa easily adjusted to the meliorated circumstances in which she regularly found herself, taking up the novel task of directing household staff with the aplomb of one who had been doing it for the whole of her life.

Physick, the Virtues and Powers of each; this Medicine of every thing must first be driven out of a visible, tangible, natural Body, and be brought into a spiritual, meliorated, supernatural operation, that the